Archives for April 2012

While I don't love working more hours, I do love extra money -- especially now that we're homeowners.
So when my colleague went out of town, I took over evenings and weekends. The hours are pretty easy, since the emails don't exactly flood in at night. I just check once every 60-90 minutes, answer whatever has come in and then go narf around Continue Reading

Tim and I are concerned about the number of errands/amount of driving we've been doing. We are now filling up the car almost weekly, compared two our previous rate of about twice a month.
So we sat them down and told them we were consolidating errands from now on. That meant that they plan ahead and get what they need in one fell swoop.
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Remember how demolishing part of the shed was going to take $600? That included haul away but... Yeesh.
The other issue is that the shed still wouldn't have had a fourth wall to, you know, close it off. (I'm sure there's a joke somewhere in there about blogging and fourth walls.)
We got a second friend, Jose, to come over and have a look. He Continue Reading

Remember when Tim had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night?
Today, we got the doctor's bill. We had sent in a letter trying to get it whittled down, but to no avail. So we're on the hook for the full $826.
That's after last month, when we paid the $930 bill for the ambulance. And after they cut the room bill by 75 percent -- so it Continue Reading

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